When a friend asked me if I had read her book the other day I was at a loss for words. She’d given me a signed copy six months ago. I hadn’t yet cracked it. It seems like the older I get the more I’ve committed to read. …

The next time you’re in conversation with someone ask yourself: “When is the last time I asked this person a question?” Western culture seems to favor extraversion. The conversational balance of talking and listening is often a difficult one to achieve. …

Seems like much of the news we’re getting from our financial institutions is not good. Interest rates are rising as well as are defaults on loans. What to do if a friend asks you for a loan: $1-$10-$100-$1000-$10,000…..? There’s a popular saying in banking circles, “If you owe the bank…

When I was first shown a picture of the Amazonian Snake Cat, I said “WOW!” I didn’t know a creature could look like that. Stunning1 If you’re a cat lover, you’ll do a double take on the feline that’s got all felinologists talking. The Serpens Catus (snake cat) was reported…

Last week a woman on a Delta Airline flight was offered, by the man sitting beside her in first class, $100,000 to take of her COVID mask. According to the New York Post and a number of other reliable rags, a rich guy tried to exert his control over a…

When I was younger, much younger, I was fortunate to have mentors available to guide me in many of my personal challenges. — I was lucky to have parents who allowed me to make mistakes and, when older, a business partner who didn’t. When I became a father four times over, I felt giving advice was my responsibility as the head (co-leader) of the household. …

Long-term relationships are held together by similar priorities in complementing order — Oh, the cruel tricks nature plays on us. We all seem to be attracted to essentially the same things in potential partners. However many of us have a differing order of preference. We tend to discover our partners' order of priorities too late, and the relationship becomes only tolerable. The…

When should working couples buy each other presents with their own money? Some say always. Some have learned to disagree. My passion when I graduated from college had a burst of golden hair and bright blue eyes. She had a saucy personality and ran rings around me intellectually. …

I’ve recently had a stroke of financial genius. There’s a large market for a product that has yet to hit the store shelves. The idea came from watching the Sunday morning news shows. Oh, yeah — I try to get ’em in as best I can. On Sunday morning I…